Boom, boom, boom. I it was so neat. It looked published. I was just going to publish, i that, i thought. You all are young say probably dont remember this, but back when they were typewriters they had ribbons and the ribbon was black and red and you could make it if b you want to type in redr black hours was broken so my words were half black and half red. [laughing] and i remember saying im on fire, man. You know . [laughing] so this is, this is what my mother was like. I came home a week or two later from school equally disgruntled high school, she said, dear boy, heres another little surprise for you in the kitchen. I said, really . Yes, go, go see. I went out there and she had so my pages together and put a cover on it, and she said, now you have a book. Yeah. I was a bestselling author in my kitchen. [laughing] [applause] so i just want to say i am so happy she is here, and im so happy that shes probably going to spend forever hanging around these stacks. And one weird miracle tha
And welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham im the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife, melissa muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting a Jeff Benedict whos here to talk about his new book lebron jeffs had quite a varied career. He practiced for a while and was active in politics, even ran for congress and in connecticut a couple of decades ago and then worked to to limit gambling in that state. Hes been a journalist writing for such publications as Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times. And along the way, hes authored coauthored more than a dozen works of nonfiction. But these have included bestselling books about tiger woods and the new England Patriots, as well as a legal thriller, pink house, about a landmark case on Eminent Domain and poisoned about the biggest Food Poisoning outbreak in the United States. Hes also had a hand in producing or movies based on some of his books. His new biography about lebron james is about someone who, of course, of many o
And welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham im the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife, melissa muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting a Jeff Benedict whos here to talk about his new book lebron jeffs had quite a varied career. He practiced for a while and was active in politics, even ran for congress and in connecticut a couple of decades ago and then worked to to limit gambling in that state. Hes been a journalist writing for such publications as Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times. And along the way, hes authored coauthored more than a dozen works of nonfiction. But these have included bestselling books about tiger woods and the new England Patriots, as well as a legal thriller, pink house, about a landmark case on Eminent Domain and poisoned about the biggest Food Poisoning outbreak in the United States. Hes also had a hand in producing or movies based on some of his books. His new biography about lebron james is about someone who, of course, of many o
And welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham im the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife, melissa muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting a Jeff Benedict whos here to talk about his new book lebron jeffs had quite a varied career. He practiced for a while and was active in politics, even ran for congress and in connecticut a couple of decades ago and then worked to to limit gambling in that state. Hes been a journalist writing for such publications as Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times. And along the way, hes authored coauthored more than a dozen works of nonfiction. But these have included bestselling books about tiger woods and the new England Patriots, as well as a legal thriller, pink house, about a landmark case on Eminent Domain and poisoned about the biggest Food Poisoning outbreak in the United States. Hes also had a hand in producing or movies based on some of his books. His new biography about lebron james is about someone who, of course, of many o
Talk about his new book lebron jeffs had quite a varied career. He practiced for a while and was active in politics, even ran for congress and in connecticut a couple of decades ago and then worked to to limit gambling in that state. Hes been a journalist writing for such publications as Sports Illustrated and the Los Angeles Times. And along the way, hes authored coauthored more than a dozen works of nonfiction. But these have included bestselling books about tiger woods and the new England Patriots, as well as a legal thriller, pink house, about a landmark case on Eminent Domain and poisoned about the biggest Food Poisoning outbreak in the United States. Hes also had a hand in producing or movies based on some of his books. His new biography about lebron james is about someone who, of course, of many of us think we already know and about whom much has been. But jeff has produced what reviewers are calling the definitive of this successful sports and the book not just thorough and tho